Utah authors are taking the Hugo Awards by storm. Indeed, if I wasn’t from around here and hadn’t been following some of these guys for a while, I might wonder what it is in the water that has Utah taking over fantasy/science fiction’s best well-known (and as it appears, most controversial) award. Here’s who has […]
Brad Torgersen in the running for the Hugo
2014-04-22 · by ·
Last year, I made a fortuitous find at the Salt Lake ComiCon: Brad Torgersen. This year, Torgersen is getting some Hugo love, with two nominations. Nominated for the Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula—all in the same year (2012)—and 2010 winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, Torgersen’s science fiction is a breath of […]
Book Review | Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
2014-04-19 · by ·
Over the years, I’ve run into Camille Paglia’s essays at unexpected times, and I seem to always come away thoughtful and, occasionally, amused. Clearly coming from a perspective distant from my own, politically and culturally a member of East Coast academia, I never the less found her insights and way of putting things provocative. When […]
Book Review | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
2014-04-03 · by ·
It’s hard to describe how I feel about The Sparrow. I give it high marks, four of five stars, and consider it one of the most beautiful–and disturbing–books I’ve read in recent memory. In the not so distant future of 2019, humanity receives a transmission of alien origin, tracing it back to a star system […]
Book Review | The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbriath (pseudonym), J.K.Rowling
2014-03-21 · by ·
The long and short of this is not so long or short. First off, Robert Galbraith, if you hadn’t already heard six months ago, is J.K. Rowling. Second, The Cuckoo’s Calling looks, sounds, and reads NOTHING like J.K.Rowling. There are no wizards, no witches, no muggles, no quiditch matches, no horcruxes, or any magic whatsoever. […]
Book Review | City of the Saints by D.J. Butler
2014-03-13 · by ·
If there were a genre for a book that includes the Old West, an alternate American history, a rebel Mormon kingdom, a slave-free Confederacy, more than a bit of steam punk, fantasy, and an all star cast of historical-larger-than-life-and-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction characters, I don’t know what it would be called, but City of the Saints by D.J. Butler has […]
Book Review | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
2014-02-24 · by ·
Sitting on my shelf for well over half a decade, thick black and heavy, there was something oppressive about the cover that kept me away. Nearly ten years after publication, I finally cracked it, and I can’t figure out why I waited so long. Of course, everything looks different in retrospect, and I wish that […]
February Kindle Fire HDX Giveaways!
2014-02-02 · by ·
How about a Giveaway to kick off your week? Win a Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash ($229 value) This is a joint AUTHOR & BLOGGER GIVEAWAY EVENT! Bloggers & Authors have joined together and each chipped in a little money towards a Kindle Fire HDX 7″. All New Kindle Fire […]
Book Review | The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
2014-02-02 · by ·
On the rare occasion when I watch a movie based on a book, I am not typically likely to hold the movie up to the book for comparison. They are separate works, and I judge them separately. Such is not always the case. With The Color of Magic, the movie version of The Color of […]
Book Review | V Wars edited by Jonathan Maberry
2014-01-14 · by ·
V Wars, edited by Jonathan Maberry, is a collection of stories set in the same world but written by a bevy of talented authors. In the world Maberry creates in V Wars, a prehistoric virus has been released from polar ice, awakening recessive genes in the human genome. The virus triggers changes in some humans, […]
